When it comes to politicians and sex, our expectations are not all that great. Certain men assume that power confers sexual privilege. And in American politics, there is an eternal disconnection between character and achievement. Sinners do good things, saints do bad things. John Edwards’s confession was a little bit breathtaking. He has an affair with Rielle Hunter, while he’s honing his speech on the imperative to “live in a moral, honest, just America.” A married former aide says he’s the father when she gets pregnant, even though she’s telling people Edwards is the dad. And one of his campaign donors pays off Hunter to get her resettled with the baby out of North Carolina. When The National Enquirer ran a story that Hunter was pregnant and named Edwards as the father, he denied that there had been any relationship. One of his campaign workers stepped up and took responsibility for the baby. But when the little girl was born, Hunter did not list any father on the birth certificate. Still, it’s odd the way some politicians spend millions getting their faces plastered everywhere and then think they can do something in secret. “Yeah, I didn’t think anyone would ever know about it, I didn’t,” Edwards said. In his statement, he bleats: “You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare.” Isn’t stripping bare how the former senator got into this mess? Mr. Edwards your political career is toast. Mr. Chuckchuck